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GARY SHAMIS
Managing Partner, SS&G Financial Services
Since Gary became managing partner of Saltz, Shamis & Goldfarb, Inc. seventeen years ago, the firm has changed dramatically. By taking an entrepreneurial approach to the management of this accounting firm, he has developed SS&G Financial Services into one of the largest and fastest growing independently owned accounting/business service firms in the country. During his tenure, the firm has grown at a rate of 20% per year to become one of the largest independently owned accounting firms in the nation.
Shamis' concepts for growth and expansion are respected and emulated by both professional peers and business organizations. The firm has won eleven Weatherhead 100 Awards (Cleveland), ten Cascade CDC Growth Awards (Akron), an Achievement in Client Service Award (Cincinnati), two Accounting Today Awards for Achievement in Client Service, and has been noted as one of Bowman's Accounting Report's top ten fastest growing firms in the U.S. SS&G Financial Services has also been chosen as one of the "Northcoast 99," a selection of the best places to work in the Northeastern Ohio region, and is a recipient of the Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Business Integrity.
In addition to his management duties, Shamis is a frequent speaker, all over the world, on the management of professional service organizations. In 2000, he teamed up with three of the industry's top advisors to form The Advisory Board, a think-tank focused on assisting and developing the accounting industry within the U.S. As the only practicing CPA in the group, he brings a wealth of experience and qualifications. For example, Shamis has been recognized in the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of Accountancy for creating the nation's first Employee Stock Ownership Program for an accounting firm. After completing his term as the Chairman of the AICPA Management of an Accounting Practice (MAP) committee, he was busy developing and chairing The Leading Edge Alliance, the industry's newest association of CPA firms. With more than 40 member firms, with collective revenues exceeding $700 million, The Leading Edge Alliance has become one of the world's premier organizations for independent and entrepreneurial firms. Based upon these contributions to the industry, Shamis was named as one of Accounting Today's "Most Influential People" for the past five years, and was chosen as the Institute of Management Accountants' 2001 Financial Executive of the Year. Shamis has been the recipient of community and industry awards too numerous to list.
After graduating from Tulane University, Shamis earned his Masters of Accountancy from The Ohio State University. He remains active in numerous community, civic, and professional organizations.
To contact Gary: 440.248-8787, gshamis@ssandg.com
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